Physics of Glaciers (HS 2021)

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651-4101-00L Physics of Glaciers

Under the following link you find information and course material for the class "Physics of Glaciers":
Class schedule and recommended books

Script

• Chapter 1 - 3 (Overview, Ice Sheets, Mass Balance)
• Chapter 4 (Flow, Deformation, Stress and Strain)
• Chapter 5 (Glacier Flow)
• Chapter 5, Part 2 (Glacier Flow)
• Chapter 6(Temperature and Heat Flow)
• Chapter 7 (Basal Motion)
• Slides: Siple Coast, Whillans Ice Stream
• Chapter 8 (Glacier Hydraulics)

Appendices

• Appendix A (List of symbols)
• Appendix B (Useful quantities)
• Appendix C (Vectors and tensors)

Slides

• Lecture 1 Slides Blackboard (Introduction, Mass balance and Glacier Geometry, Dynamic Mass Loss)
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Links

• A very nice glaciology page
• Swiss Glacier Monitoring Service
• Inventary of potentially dangerous glaciers in the Swiss Alps
• Deformation of ice crystals (cool movies)